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Dec 26, 2011

Marathon #3 - registered!

Cross training on the schedule; decided to run today 5 miles instead since I have the day off and could run in the daylight.

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I gave myself a Christmas present yesterday.

their logo-sweet!

Registration in the 2012 Grand Rapids Marathon. It's a smaller race(3,000 in the marathon and 2,500 in the half marathon) located on the West side of Michigan. The race director has the world record for finishing 7 marathons on all seven continents -- 25 days, 18 hours, 10 minutes. He's also run 229 races of at least the marathon distance! Incredible. You can read about it HERE. I can't wait to meet him.

This looks like an awesome marathon. Small enough to PR(hopefully), large enough to have a little crowd support(which I don't really need). This one starts and ends in downtown Grand Rapids. It will be the first marathon I have done that I need to sleep in a hotel the night before the race. The course also looks incredible:

Hello! I recently stumbled upon your blog.I have run Grand Rapids 3 times (full twice and half once). It's a great marathon! The race director is right there on the finish line hugging everyone who crosses! The Holiday Inn Express on Pearl St. is walking distance; it's nice and very close. Take the race director a beer from a local brewery!